Marks if you clean the school
School authorities in coimbtaore seem to have devised a method to keep their premises spick and span by awarding marks to students who have joined the cleaning operation.In order to spruce it up for a forthcoming conference, the students of the Government Higher Secondary School in Ganapathy were ordered to clean the premises using poisonous cowdung powder, which is a banned substance.While the students of standard seven were assured of five marks for their cleaning operation, there was no word on the academic reward that awaited the others.They were reportedly involved in their task, from morning to evening, throughout last week.According to Sangeetha (name changed), a student of standard 12 in the school, a shopkeeper refused to sell them cowdung powder until they obtained a letter from their teacher.The girls were asked to mop the floors of the classrooms, laboratories, office rooms, the staircase and the verandah, under the teachers’ supervision.Boys were ordered to clear the bushes in the areas near the toilets. They were also instructed to fill the potholes with stones.Sridhar, a student of standard nine, said that he had to shift all the furniture in his class, along with his classmates. Following this, they were instructed to pick up stones on the school premises.Since they were not provided with gloves, Nithya, a student of standard seven, was bitten by insects while clearing the bushes.It is rumoured that the school did not serve eggs properly during the noon-meal scheme and was known for the use of stringent punishments by the teachers.
